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Speaker 3: That's on me.
Speaker 2: That was all Hey, what no me? It's Jess. Welcome
in OTV. I think it's Tuesday. Let's go with that
Tuesday Morning here in the Capitol City. Jake Flynn, Alandra
Tata all here with you. An incredible week of football.
Weekend actually started on last Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
The primetime NFL games the gift that keeps on giving.
Speaker 5: Man, they do. They were good, man, they were great.
Last night was a weird game, strange game. The flow
of it was just wild. But man, it ended up
being a good one. Ended up being a good one. Yes, sir, mister,
uh JJ McCarthy outlast Caleb Williams. Oh my gosh it.
JJ McCarthy did not look good for most of the game.
Caleb Williams looked good for most of the game, and
then it all kind of flipped. And then it really flipped,
and all of a sudden they became a good one
and the Bears offense just kind of disappeared, and then
all of a sudden people were wide open for the Vikings.
It's amazing how that happens.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah. I do think like Kevin O'Connell's one of
the best, certainly young coaches in the NFL, but I
think one of the best overall. Yeah, I mean, that's
why people want to play for him, I would say.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 5: I was watching that game last night, and it's like, well,
all right, two young quarterbacks still trying to figure out
their place.
Speaker 2: Kyle's obviously played a lot more than JJ, and.
Speaker 5: They have probably two of the best all young two
of the best young offensive mines in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 5: I love the offense that the Bears run. I love
the offense that the Vikings are running. And I was
so close, like at the beginning of the fourth quarter,
I was so close to like sending down a little
tweet to Saints fans and be like, Hey, who you
taking Rattler or McCarthy right now?
Speaker 3: Like because up to that point McCarthy wasn't doing.
Speaker 5: Anything, Like his stats were like worse than you know,
Rattler didn't send that I didn't. I didn't send it
out because he ended up playing well, but like he
made the throws that were that were basically given to.
Speaker 2: Him by that shot he hit to Aaron Jones though
between coverage.
Speaker 5: It was a fantastic drawn up play. There's not many
times that you're going to, uh, they played cover two
and they run a they run like a dig round
or in red on the back side to scoop up
the safety and they run a fake checkdown, a checkdown
and go. I've never really seen a checkdown and go,
but that was a fantastic play. It was like the
whole game was a setup to the second half of
the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: So it was a quite the flip.
Speaker 5: But he made the plays that he should and Caleb Boys,
oh my god, he's like so extremely talented, but there's
always that big capitol let it, but just couldn't make
the plays at the end. But at the at the
first I was like I was watching the game. I
was like card values going up, card values going up.
That first drive of the game, looked really good for
Caleb couldn't finish it though, But that if I both.
I really thought that the both teams are actually really
good teams top to bottom. Both defenses played really well.
I think Kevin O'Connell kind of out schemed him right
there at the end. Like I said, there was like
a lot of setup he out.
Speaker 2: Schemed in a salon surprisingly Oh man, well crazy.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think we all know those those no
cakes and weak chin they do. Can't coach defense when
that's all he's worried about. Can't coach a whole team.
He can coach a whole defense. I don't know we'll
see anyway.
Speaker 2: He's able to get that done. But yeah, what a
great week certainly was for the NFL, as every primetime
game was a closed contested game where both teams were
in it for the full game. I don't know the
last time that's happened, but it certainly happened again Thursday, Friday,
Sunday and Monday night.
Speaker 5: That was great. I do have a I guess what
I do have a question from that game. I want
a question for you. It's a rules question, Taylor Londer.
If y'all know the answer, to this question, the rules question.
I feel like Tata is probably the best suited for this.
So yesterday in the NFL, in this Monday night football game,
a Vikings think it was the receiver caught a pass
on his knees. I hadn't been touched yet, right, Bears
linebacker comes up and punches the ball out. First contact
with the player was the fist to the ball fumble.
They called him down, They review it and they uphold
the call. They call him down first, No explanation, Joe Buck,
all the people, the referee, rules analyst there, they never
even mentioned that the ball was touched first. They're like, well,
he's clearly caught the ball, his knees aer down. And
then the rules analyst was like, well he's got clear
possession of the ball and his knees are down. They
never mentioned the fact that the first contact with the
player was a fist to the football before they touched
any part of his body. And they never no explanation
from the booth, no explanation from the ref because the
decision was made, the decision from the ref on the
field that they uphold the rule was made during commercial break,
and I'm sitting there like yelling at the TV by myself,
like it's a fumble, it's a fumble. It has to
be a fumble. I've never seen this happen. I've always wondered,
like the other day, I was wondering what happens, Like
what if they make contact with the ball first, It'd
be really hard to do, and these are down contact
with the ball first, it should be a fumble, right,
I would think that is a fun I've never seen
it happen because you didn't.
Speaker 2: You didn't you know, have him down because he wasn't.
I would think so too.
Speaker 5: There was zero ex like it did, Like the thought
didn't even cross Joe Bucks's mind, like on the on
the television.
Speaker 2: And typically so typically that is one of the crews
that will call something.
Speaker 3: I agree, Yeah, that's why I was surprising.
Speaker 2: I didn't they didn't stand watching a game and it's
like something like very clear and obvious. I was watching
the Virginia NC State game. It was a great football game,
and Virginia's driving to go take the lead. They're down three,
They're on like the eight yard line. It's first down
and there's barely any time left. But it's a new
set of downs. And they got Chandler Morris at quarterback
and he throws the rail route to the running back
when he is straight up just blanketed cover it up.
On first down, he's got a crosser going right in
front of him for an easy touchdown. And like the
announcers are just like, what a play by the dropping
outside linebacker to cover. I'm like, we're just kind of
waiting on it. Yeah, and they were like Morris had
nowhere to go with the football. I'm like, what he
had a crosser right in front of his face for
a touchdown. Like I can't stand when announcers don't just
like state the obvious.
Speaker 5: And they do that crew does it doesn't think there's
a lot of pretty good crews now that do. But
it was just shocking. And like the referee that the
referee that's in the boot that season. I used to
I don't know Agave. I was like, where's Jeane Sterotor,
give me that guy, where's he at? Because it was
a ref I've never seen before.
Speaker 3: Club. Uh yeah, It's just wild.
Speaker 5: So like I was just in my brain, I'm just like,
I don't think that the ball is an extension of
the player.
Speaker 3: If he's down not that.
Speaker 5: Ball now, it's too early for that, Bud. Eight o'clock hour,
but yeah, Taylor's gonna find that. But I think we
got a couple of uh, we have a couple of
wishes to give out today. Oh yeah, go ahead, we
sure doing it. Wish Happy birthday to my oldest Buck Flynn,
turning ten today. Double so you can't go back, can't
go back to single digit. So love you, Bud, Happy birthday,
Have a great day. We're gonna top this day off
a little flag football later. Oh yeah, that's right, fright,
So I know ten years old. I got a ten
year old now, it's wild. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well I also shout out to my oldest son. It's
his birthday. Jackson turned sixteen today. Stay off the roads,
stay off the roads coming through. Yeah, I got one
driving now.
Speaker 5: So how like, so when they get to that type
of age, like what is like you know kids, you
know ten, You're like my kids are still at like
prime birthday party age, right, so like what time, like
what year does that kind of I can't remember having
birthday parties as like a high school or I remember.
Speaker 2: That you're you're in the you're in the years where
that those are coming like a traditional birthday party. You
see an invitation. Yeah, those days are pretty much over
for you. I mean you had one this year and
it went well. Oh I've still got a couple behind him.
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm talking about for Huck. Yeah. Now
it's going to be more like, hey, I want three
of my best buds to come and they're just going
to stay at the house and we'll go do something
and that will be the birthday in the bed room.
Speaker 3: Presence.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe they wrap.
Speaker 3: I'm like maybe.
Speaker 2: I mean at some point you're probably too cool to
wrap a present. Yeah, presence there just kind of come
to in unfortunately too a little bit. You'll get one,
you'll go one or two, maybe the grandparents in your
seventeen dollars check you'll get you'll have that for you.
But uh in some change, Yeah, what'd you get, Huck?
Have you given it to him yet?
Speaker 3: Well we haven't.
Speaker 5: Uh oh well no, we did, uh this week and
we got he got a red riber red ryder, beb gun.
We got some safety glasses. Safety glasses with it. You
got it can't be too safe for those ricochets. Then
the rest of the stuff just remains to be seen.
Speaker 2: It's wrapped. Okay, birthday present? Ok?
Speaker 3: Cool?
Speaker 2: Uh? Ghost South said, did Jackson get a car for
his birthday? No? Well, because he delayed taking drivers out
and he wasn't real worried about it. So today's the
day he had. She gets his permit and then he
gets his license in I guess it would be January,
because you had to have like your permit for a
certain amount of days before you get your license. Like
he went in a hurry to take drivers aad. He
didn't want to take it during like spring football, so
he took it this summer and so he just finished
that up. Oh so you turned sixteen. You can't just
full on drive seventeen. You can sixteen if you have
to have your permit for a certain amount of time
six months?
Speaker 5: Is that a six months? Is this something that's always
been the case. Is this the Louisiana thing?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I took my drivers test before my junior year,
like in the summer.
Speaker 3: Turned sixteen in September. Couldn't get my license till December though, because.
Speaker 2: Sixteen your junior year in high school.
Speaker 3: I graduated high school in seven I started college at seventeen.
Speaker 5: I graduated high school seventeen. God, yeah, sorry, we weren't thirty. Well, no,
Angel Jackson started on time. He hasn't held back and
he's turned sixteen or sophomore year.
Speaker 3: That's weird though. He get in a car.
Speaker 2: No, he's not in the car right now because he's
going to the DMV later. So his brothers are in
the car, but he is getting a lad mcconkeye numbered
football card.
Speaker 5: So he's not listening. He hadn't got it yet. Yeah,
he ain't got it yet at a boy. Ye, it's
gonna be later today. There's a lot of work went
into that baby. They did a lot of work. That one.
I drove at fifteen. I had a hardship I drove
at fifteen as well. So like the day, like everybody
passed their driver's ED test when they were fifteen, So
like the day you turn sitting on the Maybe this
is just like a state by state thing, like we
were full on, let's go to interstate type situation on
our birthday.
Speaker 2: Blake Miller said, the Hessters push everything back here started
Evangel to sixteen drive at seventeen chill usually usually usually
pretty pretty correct. Sorry, Taylor, I know you threw that
up on the screen. Let's see that.
Speaker 5: There's there's the other view of it, though this one
doesn't really show it is the show back forew of it?
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know his left arm hit? No, No,
watch the other view it does it hit him? I
don't know, Flynn. But that's only view you got, Taylor.
Speaker 3: I didn't even find that one.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna yell on? Are you gonna yell at
him like t Bob used to?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But they yeah, whatever you talk about that. I can't
even see the ball. Did you take your medicine last night?
I think his left arm hit before he punched the
ball out no explanation, but I think it did. You
didn't even see the whole clip. That's all enough dabbled.
There was a ghost no call? Oh, here we go.
See we can't see the left arm, Flynn. Ye, if
you're listening on radio there, we're watching the play.
Speaker 5: There, you can tell that the fist makes contact with
before arm would have made contact with the other arm.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm gonna be real, honest.
Speaker 5: Let's just talk about let's just talk. Let's just pretend
that it didn't touch his arm. What what does that call?
Is that a fumble?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: It feels like they're calling it an extension of I guess, yes,
I don't know.
Speaker 5: We'll look up the official rule. But a lot of
chatter about it on the old Socials last night.
Speaker 2: A lot of people, yes, would be.
Speaker 3: I get the NFL rules different than college knee down.
Speaker 6: Trump's all maybe because like they think about like forward
progress stop.
Speaker 3: Maybe again, I don't know this.
Speaker 5: Rule that's an extension of the body, right the only way?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like knee down can't go anywhere? Then you hit him.
I don't know, we'll.
Speaker 2: Look it up. It's all right, we'll find out. Uh,
hang it up to the listeners.
Speaker 3: It's forty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're being rude getting asked a Landra Rte how
they're doing. Oh you brought up on that football first.
I mean yeah, I thought we just like quickly like yeah,
it's great, all right, Landa, how you doing? No, I
didn't know technical asking me you know the bylaws of
the NFL.
Speaker 7: Geez, what's an extension of your body?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Sorry, that was more of a segment two. Yeah, okay,
that's all me. Sorry, Well you asked it. Yeah, you
asked me how I'm doing first? Yeah, I did, And
you said how about Monday night football.
Speaker 2: Landra, how are you?
Speaker 7: Wow, I'm doing great, good, I feel good.
Speaker 8: I did not finish last night's game, like I finished
the Sunday night, but I couldn't finish last night. At
the time that I was watching it, it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was I'm gonna give you a pass too,
because you were out I believe before you did.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I had like three hours.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but yeah, they were Neither of them were doing
well when I was watching, and it was not like, yeah, it.
Speaker 3: Was doing I mean, it wasn't doing bad.
Speaker 8: It just wasn't doing I mean, Caleb had like a
couple of joys, but right, it wasn't anything super impressive
to me.
Speaker 7: Was their defense was good?
Speaker 8: Like Bears defense impressed me more than I.
Speaker 3: Thought it was just JJ or Caleb.
Speaker 2: Caleb was six, I would have guessed it was more
like five point three.
Speaker 3: I think JJ was like seven two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cala was like, where's the check down?
Speaker 3: Let me tell you something.
Speaker 5: I'm just watching the game yesterday, like got lot's going
to be said about you know.
Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy, which it should be.
Speaker 5: That the towards the back half of the season, I
think the Bears offense is going to be really good.
Ben Johnson has a really really good offensive scheme. Flynn,
you're letting your car. No, I didn't know. I'm telling
you what I think. Caleb Williams did some like pretty
phenomenal things last night. He just he always it wasn't
it wasn't consistent enough. That's Caleb Williams in a nuts show.
Speaker 6: He doesn't have eberfou was I mean that was that
was Caleb Williams in UFC to Caleb.
Speaker 5: I'm just telling you, Ben Johnson's offense is elite what
he does, and it is going to force him.
Speaker 2: I believe you, and I agree with you for what
he did in Detroit, and he'll be better. I'm just
also just I'm just telling you, just I'm with you
market my bold prediction.
Speaker 7: The Bears are going to win that.
Speaker 3: Marked that clip, whatever it is, They're gonna be in
the back of.
Speaker 2: But Caleb Williams is who he is.
Speaker 3: I get it. Jared Golf was who he was.
Speaker 2: Super Bowl before he went to Detroit with Ben Johnson.
Speaker 3: Good Just why, I mean, you don't have to like
persecute me over here.
Speaker 2: Trust I'm invested in Caleb Williams too. I hope he
does what he's going to just watch.
Speaker 8: Because now they're making means about Dan Campbell without Ben Johnson.
Speaker 7: We should have never done that Applebe's commercial.
Speaker 3: That's a team.
Speaker 6: Like player wise, you didn't lose a ton of like
star power, but you lost Frank Rag Now you're starting
center that's hard to replace, and both coordinators the Lions
like that's that's a team to watch.
Speaker 2: Because both coordinators and like a lot of position coaches too,
that went with the coordinators to get elevated. Or the
odds that I mean because the Jets looked pretty good
in their opening game too, and that was another coordinator
they lost, Aaron Glenn.
Speaker 5: What are the odds at Mike McDaniel's offensive coordinator in
Detroit next year?
Speaker 3: Very high the offensive course.
Speaker 2: Did you just see Rex Ryan go oh, let's do this? Yeah, yeah,
you're right time.
Speaker 9: I love that.
Speaker 2: Let's take a break, look for us, let's take a break.
So many sports. We've got a lot to get to.
LSU injury updates, Tyte will give you those. Rex Ryan
had some choice words for McDaniel. I called him a
couple of names. We'll have that for you. We have
an updated AP top twenty five where the Tiger's at
in that a lot to get to here, Stay locked
in here with us on OTV.
Speaker 1: Off the bench, all right.
Speaker 2: Hopefully last night during Monday night football, while you were
yearning over Caleb Williams like Flynn, you had a couple
of Dosekis in hand. You had a nice chest right
in front of you. Hopefully for sure you had one
last weekend at the tail gate. But I know you're
gonna have one at this tailgate. It's Florida week. We
don't like Florida very much around here. And if you
want to enjoy the game day experience, have your tent,
have your TV, the generator, and the ice chest full
of ice cold dose equis.
Speaker 5: Yeah, hopefully you had one, Hopefully had two, Hopefully had
dose trace quatch, whatever it was, lots of dose sequis,
whatever it is. Whatever you're doing, it's seven twenty right
now in the morning. Don't do it now, but maybe
do it later today. So, whether it's tailgate and Baton
rouge tailgate in New Orleans for the Saints, grilling, chilling,
whatever it is, make sure you get that ice cold
Mexican lagger, crack open wine, get a little lime, enjoy,
do secis, drink responsibly, go forth d.
Speaker 1: From players to legends. Hester and Flynn breakdown LSU football
like only champions can.
Speaker 3: I said, the nice you called me couldn't hold me back.
Speaker 9: They're gonna rip it off, taking that time up behind
my back. Then I'm talking to this because I can't
fall again. I can both through my mind behind a
sick of red.
Speaker 2: From all right, welcome back again OTV this Tuesday morning,
reacting to everything that we saw over the weekend last night. Incredible,
incredible week there in the National Football League, certainly in primetime,
even your New Orleans Saints, good good moments, and we'll
talk about those a little bit later on. Obviously, we
have Nick Underhill, New Orleans scott Football set to join us.
All right, let's look at the ap top twenty five.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what. The Saints did not look like
the worst team in the NFL.
Speaker 2: They did not.
Speaker 3: They and they looked far from it.
Speaker 2: They did not and again far But I know, I know.
Moral victories aren't a thing that you've learn anybody's interested in.
But progress is something you know you should be interested in.
And I certainly thought there was progress from the last
time we saw the New Orleans Saints, you know, with
Dennis Allen or with an interim head coach, and so
we'll certainly talk about the growth of the Saints. For
your LSU Tigers, they stay the same in the AP
Top twenty five at number three, two first place votes
in the coaches poll, they stay at number four. They
did get one first place vote in the coaches pole.
So as you look at the top ten, it looks
like this, Ohio State, Penn State, LSU at three, Oregon
at four, Miami at five, Georgia at six, Texas at seven,
Notre Dame at eight, Illinois at nine, Florida State at
number ten. How about that? So Oregon moves up two
spots to number four, Georgia drops two spots to number six,
Notre Dame moves up one spot, Illinois moves up two spots,
Florida State moves up four spots, And like we all
had it going into Week three of the college football season,
Florida State top ten team. Yeah, classic Florida State. We
all had that. We all had that one. Definitely something
we talked about.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're on the they're on the pole, they're on
the graphic the preseason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, there's a couple of teams that they're
in the same position that we had in them, so
they are still.
Speaker 5: Holding people on Instagram? Did look that our preseason poll
is the current one? Still still like after three weeks.
Speaker 6: We saw a guy yesterday they say this surely has
to be rage B and I wanted to respond something
really rude, but I was like, I'm on the ESPN account.
Speaker 3: I mean I do that. I'm just like, I'm not
gonna do it.
Speaker 6: Switch over to my personal and be like, surely your
Instagram doesn't show when things are posted, because this was
three weeks ago.
Speaker 2: We got we got to get our guy hand up
to give us some analytics on on that post over
our next meeting, because there's some people that are mad
online thinking it's still still the It's like, no, just
because we had textas where they should have been maybe before.
You think it's.
Speaker 7: After and off one Ohio state.
Speaker 3: We have Alabama.
Speaker 2: We have Alabama High.
Speaker 3: They're at nineteen in this poll on them at twelve.
Speaker 2: That's true, that's true. Uh so that is the top
ten again Floristate. Does I mean they look? I know
they played East Texas a and m But going back
to the Alabama game, they they look different. They look
back to having the Jimmies and Joe's at Florida State
is used to having on the field, and we'll see
if they can keep that up. South Carolina at eleven
they dropped down one spot. Clemson actually in a victory
over Troy, drops from eight to twelve. Oklahoma moves up
five spots to thirteen, Iowa State moves up two spots
to fourteen, and Tennessee moves up seven spots to number fifteen.
So for for me and I want to we need
to bring this back on Mondays here because we did
do it here as well. We do the right wrong
and indifferent. I was so wrong on Tennessee so far.
And it's just a couple of games. It's against Syracuse
and East Tennessee State. I get that, but just the
operation of their offense and Joey Aguilar and it just
looks smooth, It's looked clean. That's probably the thing I've
missed on the most so far in this early season
was Tennessee and how they would look out of the gate.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they got definitely got the better of
the quarterback trade. The quarterback swap and they've looked really good.
Bull's got that, got that team rolling. And yeah, I
don't think we, uh, anybody predicted that they would be
come out the way they did. So we'll see once
the competition picks up. But yeah, I'm looking down picking
up this week. Got Georgia.
Speaker 2: It's picking up this week quickly. It's game days there.
Speaker 5: So just in the SEC, Tennessee moves up seven spots
A and M moves up three.
Speaker 2: Oh Miss moves up three. The bulls baby South Floridas.
Speaker 8: Letna say you might want to get in on that
while it's still seventeen and a half, Like, I don't
think it's gonna stay though.
Speaker 2: That's what Tennessee Georgia is.
Speaker 7: No because you said, wait, did you say South Florida? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
South Florida is Miami Miami.
Speaker 2: It was the same number as it was last week
against Florida. Yeah, seventeen and a half.
Speaker 7: I want to get in on that now.
Speaker 2: Man, I'll tell you what. Everybody in the state of
Florida's winning football.
Speaker 7: Games, right except for Florida.
Speaker 5: Got Miami, got South Florida. You see F I U.
I think F s U. Even the even the damn
Jaguars winning games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah they did. They play the Panthers, it didn't count, but.
Speaker 5: Well, but the game they like almost played and the
one with only Florida on their chest.
Speaker 2: And it's not looking good for mister mister nakeder.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've seen their next four games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not looking great.
Speaker 3: Miami, Texas, Texas, A, and m Three of those four
are on the road.
Speaker 5: You can kind of probably dust off the old radio
film audio from last year and play the exact same
clips because the exact same chatter was happening last year.
Speaker 6: And he's surprised some people last year, and there were
people that said four or five games, Max, I mean
what he won eight including the bowl game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it was impressive because they kept Ole Miss
and LSU out of Atlanta, they beat Florida State, they
won a bowl game. Like it's hard to you know,
change your path in the middle of a season like
he did because they got house by Texas and then
beat l Shoes. Is kind of the playbook for him.
They kind of want to start off bad. Mean, I
don't think he's got many more mulligans, Bud, He doesn't
have a lot. He hasn't.
Speaker 5: I mean, the noise in Gainesville has to be deafening
right now.
Speaker 2: Well, certainly because you came into this year with some fanfare.
Now everybody knew your schedule was difficult, and they're like, oh, man,
once you get into the thick of it, like if
you can go eight and four with that schedule and
let's go. The problem is, when you have that schedule,
you can't lose to somebody where you're seventeen and a
half point favorite at home. Now. I think South Florida
is really good. They got two ranked wins. Nobody else
can say that, and they're about to try to go
for their third. It's a good football team. But Florida
fans don't give a damn about that. Like they don't
want to hear about that. No, no, they don't want to
talk about a good loss. Not to South Florida, Not
to South Florida. That doesn't matter how good South Florida is.
It's still it doesn't They're the only Jersey that only
says Florida on their chests. Yeah, so it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter how good they are.
Speaker 5: What Boise State team they beat the week before, how
they beat it, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: You lose the South Florida.
Speaker 5: And you've kind of have the history of losing games,
and you're kind of already the fan base is kind
of already shaking their head at you.
Speaker 3: A little bit.
Speaker 2: It's fireball offense.
Speaker 5: I know he'll get a shot because he kind of
proved it last year that he can come back from that.
But it's a fireble offense to lose that game, especially.
Speaker 3: The way he did.
Speaker 2: Is about to say, like all.
Speaker 6: He had to do was run the ball. He had
the lead, and Napier was super aggressive. He stopped the
clock and that's what gave South Florida the ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I am very curious to see how Florida
enters Tiger Stadium this weekend after that loss. And you
mentioned Alabama moves up two spots, Utah moves up five spots,
Texas Tech moves up three spots to twenty one, Indiana
one spot to twenty two, Michigan drops eight spots to
twenty three, and then two new SEC teams in the
top twenty five, the Auburners at twenty four and the
Missouri Tigers at twenty five.
Speaker 7: Mizoo cracking that top twenty five.
Speaker 2: It's a sleeper team. They don't leave Como until October
the eighteenth.
Speaker 5: I was sitting here, sorry, I was kind of like
we were talking about Napier. I was looking because I
had screenshoted something the other day. I wanted to read
out while we were talking about him. So BILLI, Napier's
under contract till January thirty first, at twenty nine. They
will owe eighty five percent of his contract should it
be decided to terminate. Buyout drops the thirteen million following
the twenty sixth season, file drops a six point one
million after twenty seven season, File drops the zero dollars
after the twenty eighth season. So then when he gets terminated,
he will receive roughly ten point two million dollars within
thirty days of the contract termination and receive two and
a half million every July fifteenth for the next four years,
which doesn't include any like bonuses or incentives. And so
they got come up with some cash.
Speaker 2: And here's the deal. Like we're we're in a day
and age where schools don't want to pay that buyout.
They need all the revenue they can with the revenue share,
I mean, and they're they're selling everything that they can, Like,
Hey you want to put your little patch on our jersey.
Hey you want to put your logo on our field. Yeah,
it's like, hey, we are open for business.
Speaker 5: Hey, boosters, I know you all got some money and
I want to spend it to make the team better.
But we have to pay this coach that hasn't been good.
We got to pay.
Speaker 3: It's ten million dollars.
Speaker 5: We can't spend on really good transfers or a quarterback.
Speaker 2: Or think about ten million dollars in today's in il space.
Think about all the things that ten million dollars bought
this LSU team. Right when Bryce Underwood decided to go
to Michigan, think about all the players that ten million
dollars got here to baton rouge. And you're gonna pay
it to Billy Napier to go away in thirty days.
You got to come up with that money. I'm not
saying they can't. It's Florida. They can call a couple
of boosters, but it's those those pockets aren't just in this,
you know, endlessly deep, Like you can't just keep on
going down there and pulling out change.
Speaker 3: I think the recruiting class helps the Napier. I don't.
Speaker 6: But if you remember last year, people said, oh, well
he has Lagway for another year, let's see what he
does with Lagway.
Speaker 3: And he hadn't committed anywhere yet.
Speaker 6: But a lot of people think Florida is the favorite
for Elijah Haven in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3: Does any of that hell, Billy at all? I don't
think it does.
Speaker 2: But I don't think it does. I don't know. I
mean South Florida, No, Yeah, And like, Elijah's a great quarterback,
Elijah's gonna play a long time. But like one singular recruit,
like just because it's a lot of unknown, Like, I
think he's gonna be great, and I think he's gonna
have a long career. But you can't bank your coach's
future off somebody that's in high school right now that
might get to campus and for whatever reason, it just
doesn't translate to the next level. And then now you're
stuck with a recruit that didn't work out and a
coach that hasn't worked out. Yeah, I mean, how many
five star guys have we seen? For whatever reason, you
get the campus and it's just it doesn't mesh. Yeah,
I mean, this is this is Mississippi State.
Speaker 5: I'm not taking a shot at them, but this is
like a school that's not like a blue blood like
Florida is. You know, maybe maybe some of those things
do matter. Yeah, uh in the way, but like just
like kind of diving into it. I don't think the
I don't think that fan base and the boosters and
the powers that be over there, like every you have
to win because I don't think he gives off like
the the.
Speaker 2: Aura on the sideline, I don't think he gives off
any Like that's also something that that Florida fans are
not happy about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he doesn't do it like you. And I
hate to say that because he was great here in
Louisiana for such a long time. Like so I actually
like Billy a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I.
Speaker 5: Don't like want to hit on that too much, but
like you got to win, and you got to win now,
and like you can. Yeah, Florida's got some big donors
and they got a lot of money and people that
can stroke a lot of checks. But I don't care
how much money you have. At some point you get
tired of writing those checks. Yeah, unless there's something to
hang your hat on, Unless there's some sort of hope
that you're looking for. People are just not going to
write blank checks for forever, so they got to.
Speaker 3: Make a change.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and might Now we'll talk about the game. We'll
talk about LSU and and Florida start to preview that
game when we come back, because Florida was in a
very similar situation a year ago when they played LSU.
And now that one was in the swamp. This one
is in Death Valley. And also Brian Kelly challenged LSU
fans yesterday to show up, to show out, to be
here all day for this game. So we'll have that
for you as well. Taytay will give you an injury update.
We'll do it all here when we jump back on
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Speaker 9: Just fifty minutes now, I.
Speaker 4: Don't know why, all right, welcome back to and Oh
gv here on this Tuesday morning, Els, you're getting ready
to host the Florida Gators.
Speaker 2: Remember last year when these two teams played, Florida was
coming off back to back losses. They lost against the
Georgia Bulldogs in Jacksonville thirty four to twenty. Would have
loved to see what happened if DJ Lagway stayed in
that game. Certainly they had a lot more success. And
then Georgia scored late, so the score is really not
indicative of how the game played out. But then the
Texas Longhorns beat him forty nine to seventeen at Texas. Now,
a lot of players for Florida didn't play in that game,
including DJ Lagway, and a lot of thought was, yeah,
they're trying to get healthy for this home game against LSU,
And they did, and they beat LSU. They beat him
twenty seven to sixteen, and then they beat Ole Miss
and then they beat Florida State and then they beat
two Lane. So when you played them a year ago,
their back was firmly up against the wall. Billy Napiers
was as well. DJ Lagway gave a lot of credit
to talk about this game often he was not healthy.
He had a thera band as a hamstring. I saw
it before the game. He had it taped around his
thigh and right above his knee and a thera band
was acting has his ham stream. We've all seen it there. Yeah,
we've all seen that before. And he had to change
the way that he played, and he played really well.
LSU had a lot of chances in that game and
didn't take advantage really of any of them. So they've
they came into this game in the same manner. Now,
it was later in the season and the loss was
against Georgia and Texas, not South Florida. And this was
also inside Death Valley. So what kind of Florida team
Just I'm not talking about like the actual x's and o's,
but like, just mentally, what do you think Florida's mindset
is heading into the tire stadium.
Speaker 5: It's a good question. I'm seeing this, yes'say, it counts.
I'm looking at the TV screwing out and seeing this
screen behind us, like the LSU logo and colors right
next to the Florida colors and logo really just pisses
me off in a good way, in a great way,
Like it just starts boiling my blood. So we know
that this is a big week for Jake and I
because we hate the Florida Gators. We don't like him. No,
this is to us at this table, this is our
big rival. So this week, above all of the other weeks,
this is the week to get your chili hot, to
be intense as a fan base, to go nuts, to
tailgate all day long, to have a lot of pops
before the game and during the yelle really really loud.
And what kind of team do I think Florida's going
to bring in here? I mean, the last two weeks
has shown us not a very good one, not playing
really well. But it's LSU Florida, Like this is gonna
be You're gonna get their best shot. You're gonna get
their best game plan. From a mental standpoint, Like we
just kind of talked about Napier about like he might
be on a pretty hot hot seat.
Speaker 2: But he did it last week. He turned it around.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's a scorching seat probably, but like he
turned it around last He was on just a scorching
of a seat last year, and they turned it around
and they beat LSU.
Speaker 2: Can I give you the tail of the tape from
last year. I don't think a lot of people remember.
Just like what the actual numbers of the game were.
First downs, LSU had twenty five, Florida had thirteen. Third
down efficiency LSU was thirteen of twenty four. Pretty good.
Florida's three of nine total yards LSU three ninety two,
Florida three thirty nine. You beat him in passing yards,
you beat him in brushing yards. Penalties you had three,
they had seven. You had one turnover, they did not.
You held the ball for forty one minutes and forty
three seconds. They only had it for eighteen minutes and
seventeen seconds, and you lost the game, and you lost
by double digits. Has that ever happened? Hard to explain
the title football Florida did have seven sacks. Probably the
story of the game. You gave up a big play,
explosive play in the run game. But with those if
I would have told you Florida beat you twenty seven
to sixteen with those stats, you would have said, there's
no way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would have caused you a liar.
Speaker 2: So there was chances in that game if you remember.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I've blacked out like that memory
of my life, but I don't remember anything from that
game except that we lost. So like the fact that
the status you just read to me is pretty shocking
that we I mean, that's a clear domination of the game. Yeah,
in all facets, like seven sacks. Sure they must have
been like the most timely and strategic sacks of all
time because like even with those sacks, you outperformed them
and outgained them passing yards, rushing yards, total yards, time
of possession forty one minutes, had a.
Speaker 2: Big day, Kane Durham had a big day. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Hum, So if I'm doing my math correctly, that's forty
one minutes to what nineteen it.
Speaker 2: Was like forty one some change compared to eighteen and
some change.
Speaker 5: That's a wild stat Think about that. It's over twice
the amount of plays or time. Yeah, and forty one
and some change of time to eighteen and some change.
Speaker 2: It's just not coming up with the winning play. I mean,
it's basically what it comes down to.
Speaker 5: That's a failure of just execution, but not like for
the whole game. Obviously you're executing, you're getting a lot
of first downs. I mean, you can't have time of
possession like that unless you are.
Speaker 2: Five first downs to their thirteen. You converted thirteen third downs.
You were over fifty percent, which is a shocking information
to me. Taylor's just shaking his head over there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I sent, I sent the box score,
only I cropped out the score to my best friend yesterday.
I was like, hey, remember this year where we dominated Florida.
Speaker 3: He's like, what year was this? I was like, this
was last year. This was last Like Plato is shocking.
Speaker 2: All right, let's do this, Let's take a break, and
when we come back. As I mentioned, there's some news
on the injury front for LSU. Also Brian Kelly's comments
about what he wants to see inside of Death Valley
this weekend. We'll have that to close out our number
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the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in in OTV. I'm gonna throw
it to TATA because LSU did get some news on
the injury front. You had a couple of players, key
players go down against Louisiana Tech Tata. Where are we
at with the injuries?
Speaker 6: Yeah, So d J Chester Kelly's I'm not calling it.
I mean DJs Braylan Moore. He's not calling it a
high ankle sprain because he said it's not anything that
like tightrope procedure will be done.
Speaker 3: He'll be out for four weeks or so. He said
he's more day to day.
Speaker 6: And then when he went to Trade As Green, it
is a sprained MCL, so he did not tear anything.
I know that was a concern when the injury first happened.
Speaker 3: He said he's a day to day as well.
Speaker 6: So believe it or not, guys, the head coach list
said both of these guys is questionable if you can
believe that. I know that's probably the shocker of the day.
But the way he was talking about it, it seems
like there's a lot better chance of having Braillen Moore
Saturday than there is trade As Green. But they probably
both missed the Florida game. Just based on Kelly's comment yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I I would not think, yeah, trade as I
mean sprain, sprain knee that's usually I don't I'm not
a doctor. That's a couple of weeks. That's tough to
come back week of for Braylor Moore, like, we'll see
what he's able to give you there he kept trying
to go in Louisian Tech game, and I wanted to
scream from the booth, shut it down, it stop, no,
you get Look, you got wind break, You've got a
returning offensive starter that's not starting. But he did play center, like,
let DJ go out there and let him play this.
Stop it. He kept trying to go, and like then
he tried and he tried, he couldn't go, And I'm like,
I wanted to tell Gordyon on, Hey, Gordy, just don't stop.
You need him, you need that guys.
Speaker 5: People in the chatter are calling for you and I
to be on the sideline this weekend sweating like Michael Ierman,
I don't know if we have the same performance enhancers.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think that. I don't think he was running
off a pure my high during that game.
Speaker 2: I'll be doing the call, but I would on the sideline,
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